The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-25
SIR BLUNT OUT ON BAIL.
HE ASKS MR.. HARRINGTON TO
ACT AS HIS COUNSEL.

Meets.
LONDON, Oct. 24.--The Times expresses
hope that Sir Wilfrid Blunt, who was ar
rested at Woodford. county Galway, Ire
land, yesterday, will be treated as one of the
publicans, or 'G O.. NJ. beer men," who
usually do work for the national league.
The Daily NetUS says in reference to the
arrest of Sir Blunt: 1.-The conduct of the
government was absolutely lawless, the
meeting at Woodford having been called by
the English Home Rule Association"
The Standard says Sir Wilfrid Blunt has
unintentionally done good service for the
government by showing English fomenters
of disturbances in Ireland that they are to
be treated the same as native agitators 1t
further says: 1--WE are bound to admit that
Mr.. Balfour had most opportune chance
He would have escaped scot free. The
police merely stopped the meeting"
HARRINGTON AT NOTTINGHAM.
Lord Harrington delivered speech at
Nottingham this evening. He described the
Liberal federation as nothing but one-man
association, without permanent national
character. As proof of this he said that
after the elections of 1885 nine tenths of the
Liberals would have repudiated as calumny
the assertion that the party was pledged to
home rule or repeal of the Union. Last
weeks meeting of the federation had not
either consultative or deliberative charac-
ter. The members simply assembled to hear
Mr.. Gladstone declare i'll vague terms
what the course of that aSsocia-
tion's policy should be. The de-
mands of the Unionists met practically
a fiat refusal He personally never believed
any notifications would be granted. He
declined to examine the federation's new
political programme, as it had no more
practical bearing upon the immediate tu-
ture than the resolutions passed by the three
Tooley's street tailors. Laughter and
cheers. As soon as the elections of 1885
were over, Mr.. Gladstone's copiously an
nounced programme disappeared. The votes
were used for purposes which the party did
not dream Of Let them take warning
and not attach Importance to the semblance
of an explanation OF a policy which to
some politicians was a necessary part of
politics. He reiterated that the question of
the disestablishment of the church i'll Scot
land ought to be settled by the popular
will: but not so Welsh disestablishment,
which could not be separated from English
disestablishment, as Mr.. Gladstone himself
had formerly argued when the question was
raised.
Lord Harrington accused Mr.. Gladstone
of offering disestablisnment as a naked
bribe for support of his home rule pro-
posals.
LORD CHURCHILL AT STOCKTON.
Lord Randolph Churchill spoke at Stock
ton this evening. He said that the Nation
alist leaders had made tool OF his friend
Blunt, who was an impulsive man and
knew nothing whatever about Irish affairs.
He advised his hearers not to attach too
much importance to such collisions, of
which more might occur, the object being
to make government of Ireland impossible,
and to ALLEVIATE electoral support from the
Unionist party.
Looking at the determination and
promptitude with which the government was
now acting he believed that the league and
all the forces of disorder IN Ireland would
be almost got under by the time Parliament
resumed work Some sentimental people
were shocked by these collisions with the
police, but in America the people were
not so squeamish, knowing that it was inn
possible to trife with lawlessness
in a country with large democratic
institution; that, for instance, had Mr..
Blaine spoken about the American police as
Mr.. Gladstone had spoken about the Irish
police at Kidderminister he would probably
have been expelled from public life. The
Legislatures of New York and other Aneri-
can States were fond of passing resolutions
expressing sympathy with disturbers Of
order in Ireland, but when similar event
occurred at home the police speedily
used clubs and military rifles. With
reference to free traders, Lord
Randolph argued that the duty on import
ed manufactures would ALLEVIATE the support
of the country from the Conservatives, and
only secure the support of the towns. A
duty on imported food would be useless un-
less high enough to make corn growing
productive, and there was no popular de-
mand for such duty.
sCoTLAND's SYMPATHY.
DUBLIN, Oct. 24.-Two Scotch members
of Parliament. sent to Ireland by the Scot
tish Liberal Association to assure the people
of their sympathy, have arrived at Mltchells-
town, where they met with an enthusiastic
reception.
Sir Wilfrid Blunt and Mr.. Roche, Poor
Law Guardian, who were arrested at Wood
ford Yesterday, were taken from Loughrea
| iail to Woodford to-day under a strong
| escort. At the station they were met by
Messrs. Rowlands and Sheehy, members of
Parlidment, who led the procession and a
band, which followed the prisoners, to the
court house
At the examination at Woodford to-day
Sir Wilfrid Blunt gave bail. An adjourn
ment for fortnight was refused and the
case will proceed tomorrow. Sir Wilfrid
blames Magistrate Byrne for the whole row.
He telegraphed to Mr. Harrington to-day,
requesting him to appear as his counsel. Sir
Wilfrid was the recipient Of great ovations
throughout the day.
The application for admission to bail was
made by Sr Wilfrid, after he had been sent
back to Jail He had previously refused to
furnish it.
At a banquet this evening at which
Father Coen presided, Sir Wilfrid respond
ing to toast to his wifes health, said that
he came to Ireland to join NesSrs. O'Brien
and Dillon in the battle, which would un-
douhtedly be a stiff one.
Mr.. O'Brien, in behalf of the Nationalist
members, expressed admiration for the
brave Englishman and his still braver wife,
who had suffered for the Irish cause and
won the gratitude Of the Irish throughout
the world Sir Blunt says he was treated
with consideration while in prison. His
wife was more the worse for
her experience, but she suffered for
some hours from the effects of the harsh
| treatment to which she was subjected, hav-
ing been roughly seized by the neck by a
policeman.
The city and county of Cork have been
placed under the minor clauses of the
| crimes act
+. Walsh, proprietor of tine People, a
Wexford paper, was to-day sentenced to
one months imprisonment for publishing
reports of meetings of suppressed branches
of the national league. An appeal was
allowed and he was admitted to BAIL
WELCOMING THE sCoTCHMEN.